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1997-10-05 - Re: New PGP “Everything the FBI ever dreamed of”

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From: Alan <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
To: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@invweb.net>
Message Hash: 53a79027cd805f5424e67a622c63d95e1e1604991afd6fba4c89141b6f251950
Message ID: <3.0.3.32.19971005124929.03dfa15c@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Reply To: <v03102800b05d58dd0280@[207.167.93.63]>
UTC Datetime: 1997-10-05 20:00:55 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 04:00:55 +0800

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From: Alan <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 04:00:55 +0800
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Subject: Re: New PGP "Everything the FBI ever dreamed of"
In-Reply-To: <v03102800b05d58dd0280@[207.167.93.63]>
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971005124929.03dfa15c@ctrl-alt-del.com>
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At 11:46 AM 10/5/97 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
>In <v03102800b05d58dd0280@[207.167.93.63]>, on 10/05/97 
>   at 08, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
>
>>Let's hope PGP, Inc. comes to their senses and stops doing the work of
>>Big Brother.
>
>This is really silly Tim,
>
>The ability to encrypt using multiple keys has been a feature of PGP since
>day one. All the Business Edition is doing is automating the process.
>Despite the flawed news reports on this matter (who would have guessed)
>their is nothing covert about it. The user is both informed that this is
>being done and there is a way for the user to disable it in the client.

I guess the real question is whether the messages/files generated just add
an extra key or if they leak the key through some harder to identify method.

The current version of PGP no longer shows you the list of recipients, so
it is more difficult to determine if extra keys are added.

Is the method they are using for this new version to "escrow" the keys
obvious to the recipient or not?

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